COVID-19 & Children with Special Needs
Current information about how the pandemic affects your child, family and school.
INFORMATION & RESOURCES
The resources listed here are provided as a service to parents or teachers looking for appropriate resources during the COVID 19 pandemic. Montessori Medical Partnership for Inclusion has no relationship to the organizations listed below and is not intending to imply any endorsement of the information they provide. Each reader is encouraged to carefully review materials for themselves to determine if they are useful for their own situation.
Support for Grieving Students
from the Coalition to Support Grieveing Students
Considerations for School Re-entry
from the American Academy of Pediatrics
Social Stories for Young and Old on COVID-19
Including resoruces in Spanish
COVID-19 Pandemic Resources
from the Children’s Hospital of Los Angeles, National Cener for School Crisis and Bereavement
Using Social Stories for People with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities
During the COVID-19 Emergency
Including resources in Spanish
Teens & COVID-19
From the American Academy of Pediatrics
Challenges and Opportunities During the Outbreak
Parenting in a Pandemic
10 Tips to Keep Calm at Home
From the American Academy of Pediatrics
FREE Book for Children to Increase Understanding of COVID-19
From Understood: Wide Open School
In response to the coronavirus, Understood has partnered with the best in education, tech, and media to launch Wide Open School. It’s a free collection of the best online learning experiences and activities for kids curated by Common Sense Media to help families and educators adapt to online learning.
Kathy Minardi, Director of the Whole School Leadership Institute, discusses Leading in a Time of Crisis.
FREE Download: Sensory Tips for Parents Teaching Their Children at Home
This book is an introduction to the use of sensory strategies to help children stay focused at home for schoolwork. Each child is different and each child can be feeling differently at different times of the day. The only way to figure out what helps a child is to try things and carefully observe the results. These strategies can help a child focus throughout the day. Engage the child in one of these activities, or some other active play activity she likes several times each day. Feel free to share this book with anyone else you think might enjoy it.
From the Montessori Institute of San Diego Training Center
FREE DOWNLOADABLE LANGUAGE RESOURCE
13 Simple Ways That Any Adult Can Support the Langage Development of Young Children
FROM DECODING DYSLEXIA MD
Remote Learning Resorces with a Focus on Dyslexia
Free Online Leveled Readers!
From Flyleaf Publishing
This portal is offered as a free resource to help facilitate online reading instruction and learning during this challenging time of school closures due to the Coronavirus outbreak.
New Strategies in Special Education for Children Learning at Home
In special education, teachers say that schedules, sensory supports, and close collaboration with families can help smooth the transition to remote learning during coronavirus.
Reading Rockets- Literacy Apps
Apps are fun and motivating for kids! Let Reading Rockets help you find the very best educational apps that provide practice with essential skills in print awareness, phonics, spelling, vocabulary, comprehension, and writing. We’ve also included apps for children with dyslexia, ADHD, and autism spectrum disorder that support organization and goal-setting, language and communication, and emotional regulation.
Super Online Activities and Resources
These links have a remarkable selection of activities and learning resources – all free and at your fingertips online!
COVID-19 Information By and For People with Disabilities
COVID-19 Information in Clear Language
This document answers important questions in direct language with pictures. Includes information on what COVID-19 is, how it is transmitted, how to minimize changes of contracting the disease, what are the symptoms of COVID-19, what to do if you feel sick, and how to plan for possible quarantine.
Información de COVID-19 Por y Para Personas con Discapacidades
¿Que es COVID–19? ¿Cómo puedes conseguirlo? ¿Qué pasa si lo tiene? ¿Si estoy enfermo, cuando debo de hablar a un médico? ¿Quétan enfermo se pone uno?
Y mucho más en un lenguaje claro y sencillo.
Resources for Educating Students with Disabilities During the Coronavirus Crisis
From the National Center for Special Education in Charter Schools
As the world determines how to handle the escalating outbreak of COVID-19, education leaders across the country are facing difficult and enormously impactful decisions. We hope this resource guide will assist educators and school practitioners in developing comprehensive plans for students with disabilities and creating effective and high-quality learning environments for all during this evolving national transition.
Legal FAQs on Coronavirus, School Closings, and Special Education
Working with Lindsay Jones of our partner, the National Center for Learning Disabilities, we created this FAQ to answer common legal questions you may have about and other education issues.
Helping Children Navigate Difficult Times
In her latest Blog post, Mary Lou Cobb offers guidance on empowering our children to learn ways to protect themselves and understand the current situation in age-appropriate ways.
Recommendations for Immediate Action COVID-19
From the World Institute on Disability
This document provides recommendations for rapid response solutions for federal and state governments to close the real and anticipated gaps in the COVID-19 outbreak and public health emergency-related continuity of operation for people with disabilities, older adults, and people with access and functional needs.
Helpful Resources for Home Teaching, Learning. and Fun
Literacy apps that help kids develop essential reading skills in fun ways. Apps for kids with dyslexia, ADHD, and autism spectrum disorder are included.
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